How to Connect The new iPad to the TV using VGA. Class Handouts - Laguna Woods Village Macintosh Club. How To Connect The iPad To A Projector: No Tech Skills Needed. Before we get started going over how to connect the iPad to a projector — let me ask you a question. Is the iPad a tool you already bring to the office to help manage your daily routine? Or maybe a key tool in a teaching curriculum in a classroom? It’s obvious folks who use the iPad are passionate to incorporate its technology in different areas. And over the past few years we’ve seen more and more uses for the iPad in business and in education.
One popular usage by both (teachers and business professionals) is to use the iPad as a presentation tool. Which leads us to our topic. If you want to use the iPad as a presentation tool but are not sure where to start or how much ($) is involved to make it all work, or even concern that you’re not up to the challenge technically — then you might want to stay close to this site. Overview Here are some of the questions answered in this series: What Apps do I need to make a presentations? What’s covered in this first post Presenting with iPad: Wireless. iPads / Training Resources. Get Mirroring to Work at Your Library! by Bradley Jones | Little eLit. The ideal way to present iPad apps to a large group (as in more than 5) is to mirror wirelessly to a big projection screen. iPads come with a feature called “AirPlay” that makes this possible.
With AirPlay, you can connect your iPad to your laptop or an AppleTV over a shared wifi network—connect that laptop or AppleTV to a projector and, blammo! —you’re projecting! (Read Tony Vincent’s article “6 Ways to Show Your iPad on a Projector Screen”). Unfortunately, many of us have discovered it’s not as easy as that at our library. Here’s the rub: AirPlay and AppleTV are consumer products designed to be used by individuals on a home wifi network.
But there ARE workarounds (Yay! Tony Vincent posted this link to instructions for setting up an ad hoc network in response to a comment on the “6 Ways” article above. Open Reflector App on the MacBook and connect the iPad to the ad hoc network by entering the name and password for the network that you created. Like this: Like Loading... TV - HD iTunes content and more on your TV. PC ‹ AirServer.